Samadhi or blissful divine experience arises when the Ego and the Mind are dissolved.
Samadhi is a state to be attained by one’s own effort. Samadhi is limitless, divisionless and infinite. Samadhi is an experience of being and pure consciousness. When this experience is realized – the mind, desires, actions, and feelings of joy and sorrow vanish into a void.
How can you be really happy, O sweet beloved child? The aspirant who has controlled their mind is blissful, happy and free.
Physical freedom is no freedom at all. If you are easily carried away by surging emotions and impulses, if you are under the grip of moods, cravings and passions.
You are like a rudderless boat. You are tossed about hither and thither like a piece of straw in the vast expanse on the ocean. You laugh for five minutes and weep for five hours.
What can wife, son, friends, money, fame and power do for you when you are under the sway of the impulses of your own mind? The aspirant is the true hero who has controlled their mind. There is an adage: “He who has controlled his mind has controlled the world.”
True victory is over the mind. That is real freedom. Rigorous discipline and self-imposed restrictions will eventually eradicate all desires, thoughts, impulses, cravings and passions. Only then can you expect to be free from the thralldom of the mind. You should not give any leniency to the mind. The mind is mischievous imp.
Curb the activity of the mind by drastic measures. Become a perfect Yogi.
Money cannot give you freedom. Freedom is not a commodity that can be purchased in the Crawford Market. It is a rare, hidden treasure guarded by a five-hooded serpent. Unless you kill or tame this serpent, you cannot have access to that treasure. That treasure is Spiritual Wealth – that is Freedom, that is Bliss.
The serpent is your mind. The five hoods are the five senses through which the mind-serpent hisses.
Today people are immersed in worldliness. They madly run after money and wealth. They have no time to think of God and higher spiritual things. The sun dawns and the mind runs again in its old, usual, sensual grooves of eating, drinking and sleeping. The day has passed. In this way the whole life passes away. There is neither moral development nor spiritual progress.
Real happiness is within you. It is in the Atma. It is subjective. It is in the Sattva Guna and beyond Sattva. It manifests when the mind is concentrated.
Meditate.
Be silent. Enter silence. Silence is Atma. Silence is Brahman. Silence is Centre. Silence is the Hridaya Guha, the heart-cave.
…more about meditation in the book Meditation Know How by Swami Sivananda